New Delhi, March 20 -- US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr. had in his first meeting with officials from PepsiCo, WK Kellogg, General Mills, and other large food companies stated that he wants artificial dyes out of US food supply. The US Health Secretary has now announced the review of the GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) standards.

"We want the dyes out of the food", Robert Kennedy Jr had told the food companies in his meeting. The health secretary said that the Donald Trump government would "get rid of the GRAS standards for most products".

"That designation was expanded by an industry that began taking advantage of it so that any new chemical that they want to add to our food is generally recognized as s...